Reds Fall Twice At AUS Tourney
3-1 loss to Dal and 3-2 loss to SMU
(WOLFVILLE, NS) The UNB Reds dropped a pair of games Saturday, at the Atlantic University Sport league tournament, at Acadia University.
In their first match of the day, the Reds fell 3-1 to the Dal Tigers.
Dal won 24-26, 25-14, 25-17 and 25-18.
Pulling out to an early 8-0 lead in the second set, the Tigers continued putting offensive pressure on the defending Reds. Courtney Baker and Hannah Aldcorn combined for 5 kills to give Dalhousie a 22-8 lead and eventual 25-14 win.
UNB trailed early in the third set, but bounced back to a 10-13 deficit. The slim margin would not hold as the Tigers capitalized on attack errors and multiple kills from Julie Moore, Victoria Haworth and Courtney Baker and a 25-17 game victory.
The fourth and final set saw the Tigers pull out to a commanding 12-3 lead that would not be relinquished. Two consecutive kills by Julie Moore would wrap up the fourth set with a 25-18 set and 3-1 match Dalhousie win.
Courtney Baker took the honours as the AUS Subway Player of the Match. Baker posted 14 kills and recorded 13 digs. On the losing end, Siobhan Fitzpatrick had 13 kills, while Victoria Eadle added 11.
In the second match, UNB fell to the Saint Mary's Huskies 3-2.
SMU won 25-20, 18-25, 25-20, 26-28, and 15-11.
Lindsay Donovan led the way with 13 kills and was named the Subway Player of the Game.
The Huskies squeezed out a 25-20 first set win that swung back and forth until the point of an UNB attack error that gave Saint Mary's a 13-12 lead.
UNB would not roll over and grabbed a convincing 25-18 second set win to tie the match at one. A kill by Kristen Burns gave the Reds a 12-11 lead that would not change hands for the remainder of the set.
Saint Mary's took the third set 25-20.
The Reds pushed the match to a fifth and deciding set with a 28-26 win that could have gone either way. Two consecutive set ending kills by Victoria Eadle gave UNB the needed win to stay alive.
Ahead 7-4 early in the fifth, the Reds gave up the lead to the Huskies on a service ace. Saint Mary's took the set 15-11.
Fitzpatrick led the Reds with 20 kills and 12 digs. Eadle added an amazing 25 kills – 0.302 hitting percentage - in the losing effort.
The Reds complete the weekend with a 12:00pm match against Memorial on Sunday.
RECAP AND PHOTOS BY: Acadia Athletics